Career Development

Make the most out of your graduate medical education training at UCLA.

The GME Office at UCLA hosts and supports a wide variety of programming for residents and fellows to participate in enrichment opportunities. Such opportunities include education and participation in research, global health and healthcare inequities, and medical technology innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Global Health Panel

Watch a recording of the most recent Global Health Panel, hosted on October 23, 2025.

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ASCEND Program

Advancing Scientific Careers and Excellence in Physician Development (ASCEND) provides a series of seminars to provide a forum for housestaff, fellows, and early faculty at DGSOM to encourage future research careers as physician scientists.

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Global Health Pathway Lecture Series

Please visit the Global Health Clinical Electives website for more opportunities. Further information on this series will be released in the coming months.

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Resident Informaticist Program

The UCLA Health Resident Informaticist Program provides clinician trainees with a general understanding of Clinical and Health Informatics topics. The program embraces a practical, hands-on approach in order to attain tangible results.

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Biodesign Innovation Fellowship

UCLA Biodesign is bringing together a best-in-class interdisciplinary team to prototype and develop technologies to solve challenging health care needs through this 10-month postgraduate fellowship.

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